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“I already got great feedback from the casting directors and everybody involved,” Mick continued. “It wasn’t as challenging as people think it would be and what that shows is that for a lot of adult actors in our industry, being on set and being in front of the camera—sometimes you have a script and sometimes you ad lib—it’s already for many of us second nature to do certain things. And when you go to a big set like this it doesn’t feel as hard anymore.
“Yes, it’s more cameras, more background actors and a different way of doing things. But at the end of the day it’s still acting and you tell the story of a person in front of a camera and you use those things that you have learned in your lifetime that you master, even if your teacher was the sets in the adult industry.”
Blue told AVN that ever since he joined the adult industry 24 years ago in Europe that he has always wanted to become an actor.
“So I really took a deep dive into the mainstream world, which is crazy and hard to understand and o􏰀erwhelming and difficult in more ways than one. But 􏰁 do􏰀e in,” he explained.
􏰂o Blue created a casting profile􏰃 got professional headshots and made an acting reel.
“I would say I really started in November and for the past 10 months I really, really dug in and did a bunch of auditions,” Mick continued. “When you look into the acting world what a lot of people don’t know from the outside is that one of the hardest things is to make your auditions stand out and be good in auditions. Since COVID 95% of auditions are not in person anymore. Most of it is self tapes.”
When he got the call about being cast in General Hospital, Blue said “it came out of nowhere.”
“I’ve done so many auditions—many I got from Michael Zanuck and many I generated myself. Ninety-nine percent of the time you never even get an answer. You only get an answer if you’ve either booked the job or made it to the next round for an in-person audition,” he added.
With more than 5500 credits in adult, Blue said he gets recognized for his adult work on his mainstream shoots.
􏰄􏰂o far since No􏰀ember 􏰁􏰅􏰀e done fi􏰀e mainstream pro􏰆ects and at least one person on every single set came up to me and they said they knew who I am and they wanted either to take a picture or wanted to have a chat with me,” he revealed.
Blue said he also isn’t hiding his adult work—quite the contrary. He made the decision immediately to use his Mick Blue stage name for his mainstream acting.
􏰄􏰁 decided from the first moment to use the same name 􏰁􏰅􏰀e been using for 􏰇􏰈 years in the adult and whoever has something against it they won’t book me and that􏰅s fine􏰃 it wouldn􏰅t be good blood anyways􏰃􏰉 Mick said. 􏰄􏰊he ones who want to have me on set who don’t care, I want to work for those people.”
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